How China's 100 million tourists are reshaping marketing strategies
Asia

How China's 100 million tourists are reshaping marketing strategies

8y Sophie Loras

How China's 100 million tourists are reshaping mar...

Chinese tourists make more than 100 million overseas trips a year, but marketing to this lucrative group starts long before they leave China. Read Mor...

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Wearable technology takes center stage in stats of the week
Asia

Wearable technology takes center stage in stats of the week

8y Sophie Loras

Wearable technology takes center stage in stats of...

The week in numbers starts with wearable technologies and the Internet of Things, but ultimately, it's mobile technologies that make the world go roun...

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How many channels do brands need for a multichannel strategy?
Asia

How many channels do brands need for a multichannel strategy?

8y Sophie Loras

How many channels do brands need for a multichanne...

Any retail marketing strategy in Asia needs a minimum of three channels, according to regional experts. Read More...

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Throwback Thursday: Imagination's Shereen O'Brien talks cars, exercise and chewing gum
Acquisition

Throwback Thursday: Imagination's Shereen O'Brien talks cars, exercise and ...

8y Sophie Loras

Throwback Thursday: Imagination's Shereen O'Brien ...

Shereen O'Brien, the Creative Strategy Director at Imagination in Hong Kong, reflects on the art of storytelling in three ads from Europe and Asia. Re...

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How China's WeChat Wallet is going global
Asia

How China's WeChat Wallet is going global

8y Sophie Loras

How China's WeChat Wallet is going global

China's WeChat Wallet is expanding into global markets, but key to its success will depend on both user and vendor uptake. Read More...

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Social and mobile payments boom for Chinese Lunar New Year
Ecommerce

Social and mobile payments boom for Chinese Lunar New Year

8y Yuyu Chen

Social and mobile payments boom for Chinese Lunar ...

A new research from AdMaster shows that three in four mobile users in China planned to celebrate Lunar New Year on social. Read More...

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How WeChat Wallet has kept QR codes alive in China
Asia

How WeChat Wallet has kept QR codes alive in China

8y Sophie Loras

How WeChat Wallet has kept QR codes alive in China

QR codes might seem old school in the fast-paced world of digital marketing, but in China, they have transformed communications app WeChat into a worl...

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How brands are celebrating the Chinese New Year in China
Acquisition

How brands are celebrating the Chinese New Year in China

8y Sophie Loras

How brands are celebrating the Chinese New Year in...

On February 8, China’s 1.3 billion people will see in the Chinese New Year of the Monkey. Here’s how brands like PepsiCo, McDonald’s...

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Six of our favorite stats of the week from APAC
Asia

Six of our favorite stats of the week from APAC

8y Sophie Loras

Six of our favorite stats of the week from APAC

The Asia Pacific is home to more than four billion people. This week's industry statistics reflect the huge growth in digital uptake in this region, a...

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How four brands used O2O for better retail sales in China
Asia

How four brands used O2O for better retail sales in China

8y Elisa Harca

How four brands used O2O for better retail sales i...

Online to offline (O2O) works particularly well for brands in China, because each channel helps to push sales through the other. Read More...

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Tweets of the week: celebrations and festivals dominate Twitter in APAC
Acquisition

Tweets of the week: celebrations and festivals dominate Twitter in APAC

8y Sophie Loras

Tweets of the week: celebrations and festivals dom...

This week, Twitter was used across the Asia Pacific region to celebrate Australia Day, India's Republic Day, and the Chinese New Year of the Monkey. R...

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How to create great earned social media campaigns for China
Acquisition

How to create great earned social media campaigns for China

8y Joseph Tsang

How to create great earned social media campaigns ...

Three clever social media campaigns in China work hard on earned media to help them go viral. Read More...

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Cross-border ecommerce: tips for selling online into China
Asia

Cross-border ecommerce: tips for selling online into China

8y Sophie Loras

Cross-border ecommerce: tips for selling online in...

China's ecommerce cross-border trade channel is booming. Here are three points to consider when setting up a strategy for your brand. Read More...

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Amazon, Alibaba and Rakuten: who is winning the global ecommerce game?
Ecommerce

Amazon, Alibaba and Rakuten: who is winning the global ecommerce game?

8y Yuyu Chen

Amazon, Alibaba and Rakuten: who is winning the gl...

Amazon has been an ecommerce powerhouse in the West, while its two Asian counterparts – Alibaba in China and Rakuten in Japan – have been ...

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Access to data is the key to China's programmatic sector
Asia

Access to data is the key to China's programmatic sector

8y Charlie Wang

Access to data is the key to China's programmatic ...

Experts predict that in 2016, access to data will become more readily available to advertisers in China, which will result in the overall refinement o...

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Three digital predictions for APAC and why they matter
Asia

Three digital predictions for APAC and why they matter

8y Andy Radovic

Three digital predictions for APAC and why they ma...

Cross-screen targeting, programmatic, and the rise of India should be on the radar of every marketer in APAC, as we move into 2016. Read More...

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How to build a brand for the people
Asia

How to build a brand for the people

8y Leon Liu

How to build a brand for the people

Today's digital marketing world is all about the consumer, so how does one build a brand for the people? Using a metaphor for a concerto, we examine h...

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How UX helped Netflix take over the world
Conference Coverage

How UX helped Netflix take over the world

8y Mike O'Brien

How UX helped Netflix take over the world

The idea of putting the customer first is something of a marketing cliche. But that's exactly how Netflix became the world's biggest broadcaster. Read...

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Why China’s cross-border e-commerce channel is just the beginning
Asia

Why China’s cross-border e-commerce channel is just the beginning

8y Sophie Loras

Why China’s cross-border e-commerce channel is jus...

E-commerce cross-border trade in China is booming and is only set to grow. As Chinese consumers seek out genuine, quality international products, the ...

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What does Alibaba's latest purchase mean for brand marketers?
Asia

What does Alibaba's latest purchase mean for brand marketers?

8y Sophie Loras

What does Alibaba's latest purchase mean for brand...

Time will tell if Alibaba's purchase of the 112-year-old South China Morning Post newspaper will open doors for brand marketing in China. Read More...

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The 10 most cringeworthy social fails of 2015
Social Media

The 10 most cringeworthy social fails of 2015

8y Mike O'Brien

The 10 most cringeworthy social fails of 2015

For the second year, ClickZ ranks the top 10 social media fails from brands like Starbucks and Tinder, which range from embarrassing to egregiously of...

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Ads of the month: Asia style! Localizing in Wonderfilled ways
Asia

Ads of the month: Asia style! Localizing in Wonderfilled ways

8y Sophie Loras

Ads of the month: Asia style! Localizing in Wonder...

We've selected four ads from the Asia Pacific region to highlight effective localization strategies when engaging new and different markets. Read More...

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How brands promoted themselves in the lead up to Alibaba's Singles Day
Asia

How brands promoted themselves in the lead up to Alibaba's Singles Day

8y Elisa Harca

How brands promoted themselves in the lead up to A...

Thousands of brands participate in Alibaba's e-commerce shopping holiday, Singles Day. Here is how ASOS, Xiaomi, and Zalora have found ways to stand o...

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Technology and innovation open new opportunities for O2O retail, starting in Asia
Asia

Technology and innovation open new opportunities for O2O retail, starting i...

8y Ohad Hecht

Technology and innovation open new opportunities f...

New technology, like Google's Physical Web, combined with other e-commerce innovations from Asia, signify the evolution of O2O as a dominant force wit...

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Eliminating the fear factor of programmatic buying in China
Asia

Eliminating the fear factor of programmatic buying in China

8y Charlie Wang

Eliminating the fear factor of programmatic buying...

Brands need not be afraid of programmatic buying in China if they understand the difference between real time buying and more premium, targeted models...

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Why have QR codes taken off in China?
Asia

Why have QR codes taken off in China?

8y Sophie Loras

Why have QR codes taken off in China?

In China, brands are using QR codes for everything – from digital campaigns, to branding, to content marketing and O2O e-commerce strategies. And it's...

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Tweets of the Week: Starbucks, singles, and supporting our troops
Social

Tweets of the Week: Starbucks, singles, and supporting our troops

8y Mike O'Brien

Tweets of the Week: Starbucks, singles, and suppor...

Responses to Starbucks' red cups spilled into this week, which marked Veteran's Day, Singles Day and National Sundae Day. Taco Bell celebrated none of...

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